Who Am I?

Who Am I? - • Who Am I?
Who Am I? - ramdass.org/
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Our concepts of who we are help us to navigate our world, but they are often overvalued and have the potential to trap us in form. These traits create an image with which we identify, and subsequently struggle to maintain as we are presented with life's inevitable changes. In this talk, given at the University of Vermont, Ram Dass begins by asking the question, 'Who am I?'. Are we the vast array of personality traits that arise in our day to day lives? Can we pinpoint exactly who or what we are within our body, mind or spirit? These questions, as Ram Dass explains, continuously led him back into the void, as every answer he had was ultimately untrue. He eventually learned to identify with the creator, rather than the creation, and his sense of separateness began to dissolve.
We often fail to recognize that we too are a part of the lawful unfolding of nature. From a higher perspective we can sometimes see that it's all perfect, but that attitude is difficult to maintain in the presence of real suffering. If we attempt to live in either of these extremes, then we're standing, 'somewhere', and there's nowhere to stand. Our incarnation isn't an error, and where we are is exactly where we are supposed to be, in this moment. We can't push away our humanity, as freedom comes through form, not in spite of it.
(University of Vermont - Burlington, VT - 10/30/1986)

[@matthewhunter1285]

"just assume I'm totally insane" One of my Favorite Ram Dass quote.

[@bobobake1232]

🤣 yep!

[@lordjeirik7580]

Lool

[@DavidJohnson-nm6qu]

​@@bobobake1232z112😮12122

[@gazzyhook7784]

You can have him talking in the background and still catch the things that matter. His voice just flows like a stream.

[@preetjheeta143]

exactly that's what I do at work play him at the background and it's different environment at work. everything goes with flow. amazing soul

[@brianlund7862]

My "guided meditations" tend to be his lectures lol

[@kateybereny]

Me too!!

[@bobobake1232]

Isn't it remarkable? Namaste to all of you, me, brothers and sisters... peace!

[@ehudsonification3811]

His stream of words feed my soul with clean water, quenching a thirst I didn’t know I had.

[@Melissa-nd8qc]

Ram Dass brought me here from the Otherside, beyond the SUIT we just said goodbye to. He just knew that I needed this one. He always did. He knew we miss him. He is us. He is loving awareness. And he told us once, Anyone can be your guru, as long as you know how to listen. He is truly infinite now. Thank you for loving servitude Ram Dass, and showing us the mirror within our souls. A true teacher and lover you are. Always. Infinite.

[@bensilverstein5883]

its like hearing your soul and knowing all is well, a state of being, like a child before the others interfere,

[@bryantbrooks2390]

I’m glad to know you are me, Ram Dass.

[@michaelvlastelica813]

I'm glad to know that we are ram dass lol

[@brandonhatton1680]

Miss you today Baba. My heart is heavy & full of pain. Ram ram🙏🙏❤

[@brianlund7862]

Love you brother. Listen to his teachings closely. He is not gone

[@MichaelOfRohan]

I love you

[@brianswelding]

Love and blessings ❤🙏

[@IResonateWithU]

I feel this 💛

[@IWouldChange]

Ram Dass is such a rascal! A brilliant one 🙏 I say this because I love how he calls people a ‘rascal’ in such a beautiful affectionat way ✌️

[@lawrencetawiah]

#shivashambho 🧘🏾‍♂️🇬🇭😊🧼👋🏾🧻🛎

[@brianswelding]

That's exactly what his guru called him and the other western devotees... rascals. ❤🙏

[@misterchristopher8857]

He's the best spokesman for the monkey mind of human beings. Thank you for sharing this short talk.

[@Hot_since97]

This helped me soo much. Once I thought I 've became englightened through ecstasy, I started mind clinging. So when I came down last time from it I was feeling really confused. Is this high awareness which comes from ecstasy real, or is this ordinary life more real ?! This cleared and calmed my mind so much... It's all real, because they are all forms. And now I can embrace the human condition which implicates being trapped in a linear thinking and materialism, but to be part of the divine also. It's very contrary, but it's true.

[@djp9832]

so many layers of reality, lsd,dmt,mdma.sleeping,awake,astral

[@slangsd]

It's all real, but what makes it divine is our ability to integrate these different forms. This holistic connection brings forth our ability to experience freedom and peace. We feel warfare within ourselves because these different forms compete with one another. Everything is interconnected.

[@Melissa-nd8qc]

@@slangsd yessss

[@willywagtail4182]

Love this guy everytime i listen to him.I new of him but only started listening to him over the lasy year always entertaining & what he says just speaks to me🙏💓🦉

[@josephpotter2844]

Love you Babba Ram Das

[@heatherkozak2987]

Thank you for all you do for us. I found you when I needed it the most. Love and light Ram Dass.

[@anthonynewton7435]

Excellent lecture. As good as any ive listened to. Logic and truth

[@VishalTheK]

And at last you reached everyone in a very touching way with the truth

[@lukasoc1518]

1986. Vermont. University.

[@airheads1012]

One of my favorite talks by far from ram dass

[@adityaanand4439]

His absence is felt deeply by all the spiritual seekers. 🙌

[@ryanmullins9546]

🙏🙏🙏 sure is

[@jackstaub9221]

He would laugh at such a statement...no offense

[@caterinaalbanj777]

And yet his presence is felt deeply by all the spiritual seekers.✨

[@ryanmullins9546]

I have been trying to reach him in meditation, nothing yet but I’ll keep trying .❤️❤️

[@adityaanand4439]

@@ryanmullins9546 He surely will show himself to you. A Guru never denies the fruits of a wholehearted attempt... : ))

[@consciousawareness6020]

Thank you 🙏

[@JoaoPedro-dn9nb]

I am without form, without limit, Beyond space, beyond time, I am in everything, everything is in me. I am the bliss of the universe, Everywhere am I. I am existence Absolute, knowledge Absolute, bliss Absolute, I am That, I am That

[@bobobake1232]

Isn't it remarkable? Namaste to all of you, me, brothers and sisters... peace!

[@haarhoffjan]

Cant thank you enough for opening my eyes and realising the ultimate truth …❤️

[@chefjonsf]

So fitting , I had the exact same question after going against my word in relation to someone and regretting it. Who am I? The universe answered today. Thank you Baba Ram Dass. Whats my work? You’re in a school, why dont you try the curriculum? Try being human? I hadn’t thought of that. I was too busy being high and spiritual, pushing my humanity away. It began to dawn on me - Freedom was gonna come through form, not in spite of it.

[@Majnun74]

Amazing!

[@roxinante8345]

Definitely one of the greats.

[@blackpearl1t]

I love this so much thank u u r the possibility the infinite ways

[@richard29sher]

Wonderful

[@902Steeler]

Words keep our minds quiet that's a good way to look at it

[@dnbjedi]

Aww he has notes.

[@luhgubrious]

Very deep Mr. Lahey

[@blainerupp]

☹️🎂🍩🍩🍠🍠🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🍕🍕🍞

[@stringbing97]

😂😂😂 oh my god

[@VitruvianAlgo]

ahahahahahah! very few will get the reference

[@donfortier8569]

shut up Randy!!

[@allinthemind2006]

you here that Rand? The winds of shit they are a blowin

[@maclivesimply4400]

I hear you Ram Dass

[@WilliamJReick]

This was so entertaining!

[@rssrolo]

ahhhh, such fun, 22:00 - 25, oh my Ram Dass, so fun, 24:42, forget it! and then right at 25:00, "is this too heavy?" - our identity has no free will, but when we let go of any form that an identity can cling to, then we are free will - yes, Baba, we can hear you!

[@richardhughes2429]

Thank you

[@nickpreetic4670]

Love you sir

[@rahul1234552]

Absolute truth..!

[@TheFrogballz]

I don't know what it is but I understand everything that he is saying

[@susieking8257]

Thanks

[@jugganaut26]

THIS IS IT. Wow, wow. I am shuddering with the realization that our constant grasping for something else, if only this, if only that, going there, going over there, doing that, and then doing that... It is always here and now, and that is it.

[@mw1429]

spreading love is never wrong

[@lawrencetawiah]

#shivashambho 🧘🏾‍♂️🇬🇭😊🧼👋🏾🧻🛎

[@HeatherKMB]

💕💕💕

[@peterphelps4111]

Just as his presence is known by the aware being... thanks to the form known as utube .... this message will self destruct in 10 seconds Jim

[@Lou-C]

💛🕉

[@ellisonc152]

nice video name, no joke, ram ram

[@psychologicalsuccess3476]

You can understand around the time he's saying "both... both... both" why silence holds the truth absolutely

[@highwayranger4878]

I am!! I am life!! I am dying!! I am all I am!! I am, I am. Nice to me you I am!!

[@tanase1]

Did anyone notice that at his every lecture there is a baby crying? :-)

[@desertdesignlab]

It’s our work. lol

[@AustinBoiiii]

@@desertdesignlab this^ hahah

[@TrinityUnofficial]

listen, cosmos, it's too much to talk to you like this. This type of echo rings my ears and biwilders my mind. My god this must be some sort of mirror where I realized I was the universe and then the universe said "fuck it" and let me in on this whole game of formation. But even though these words come from grace no matter which way I think of it, it seems that their only purpose is to tell someone else "hey, it's me the cosmos, just checking in and seeing how things are, just gotta knock that domino down.. alright have a nice eternity and I'll be back again."

[@alfreddifeo9642]

🙏

[@bdancepants5003]

“You can eat as much wheatgrass as you want… you’ll still die” 😂🫀🧠👁

[@frankcwte]

I love you

[@saurabhrajmane5889]

love u

[@user-lu2wu4kz2l]

Childhood abuse blocks spirituality until the abuse is processed.

[@wouldntyouliketoknow230]

If I may ask, how do you mean by block?

[@user-lu2wu4kz2l]

@@wouldntyouliketoknow230 any attempt isn't successful. I want to add. It will be of imagination they are getting to themselves.

[@mitkabz]

@@wouldntyouliketoknow230 i think he means if u are emotionaly traumatized and u think constantly about it and caught up in loppy thoughts about the pain qnd suffering of your trauma than it stops u from seeing, from being here and now. It stops u and BLOCKS u from being free of blame and of suffering. It blocks your spirituality

[@dennispetzold869]

Classic Ram Dass.

[@MissLisaAdams]

"You can eat as much wheatgrass as you want, and you will still decay and die" 😂🤣 Love you Ram Dass❤

[@Alonzoshootingbear]

R.i.p

[@kishorram9112]

Neeb karoli baba ki jai🙏🙏🙏

[@brianswelding]

Ram Ram

[@danielrodrigues2041]

Words from others don't keep our minds quiet. And words don't make our hearts hear each other. The only thing that can keep our mind quiet, and our heart hear others is from within ourselves.

[@19Marc79]

1:59 => 😇

[@radicalhonesty3628]

I try and watch this video but my mind is so distracted, I'm in sheer paralyzed panic. I've got no money. what the fuck am I going to do? I'm in paralyzed terror. I'm desperate for a miracle...

[@josephpotter2844]

He is psychadelic ,life is psychadelic, our minds are psychadelic, Shanti Shanti Shanti.

[@lindarayner2617]

Joseph Potter no

[@dirdee_hippie]

Ram Dass makes my drives so much easier

[@djoe-tf8hn]

Why did he said there is so many I. We don't feel that way. We fee I is the same doing many things

[@aydenfimbres9406]

when you ask him inn person you die and in the afterlife you have to watch this.

[@ohmnitrix4209]

I guess I finally know who I am lol

[@erikl1003]

FreshLambKebab who are you this time? (:

[@zephaudi]

@@erikl1003 Hhahahahahahhahahahhahahaha who are you now?

[@goodvibesonly2015]

The Audiance laughing at everything really irritates me..am I the only one?? I guess this is a Me problem and maybe thats what I need to work on! I am so angry and uptight all the time!!!!

[@itsallgravityfitness7580]

#itsallgravityfitness #DUMMYSWOLE #stepsquad #mrgravity

[@jonathananderson9606]

Just listen with your heart it's OK the words are completely confusing,just assume I'm totally insane

[@archarmony9851]

not my volvo!

[@ultracalicokittycat]

I was like, wait, did he say "Volvo", or "vulva"??? LOL (I still don't know!!!)

[@jonathananderson9606]

Just listen with your heart the words are completely confusing,just assume I'm totally insane

[@brittanymyers7552]

I really relate to Ram Dass 's thoughts but I wish he'd had children so he could have seen things from that point of view.

[@jita14]

he has a son

[@sarahgourley5675]

But he didn’t raise him.

[@petersanmiguel1164]

John 3:16

[@bryguy8716]

He only dropped his body he's still here now

[@BabaRamDassChannel]

We at the channel feel this to be very true - if anything he expanded!

[@DuncanHarrist]

If I dial the number will God answer?

[@mehendi1251]

if you'll walk 1 step towards god he will walk 100 steps towards you

[@dickslayer111]

@@appearance8932 silent bliss, that is a good way to put it.

[@petersanmiguel1164]

You are a lost sinner in need of the salvation only the Messiah Jesus can provide. See the gospel of John.

[@Nominay]

I'm sick of how much this audience laughs. Almost constantly. It's distracting.

[@josephpotter2844]

Nominay yes it is you ,

[@scottash351]

Many of them are pretty high and Ram Dass goes for laughs too. I almost feel he's a little dependent on it. I think he's still a little stuck in praise and blame but I could be wrong.

[@TheJcfclark]

@@scottash351 It's his comedian self image..

[@baptm727]

@@scottash351 In my opinion he's just used to be seen as a crazy guy from "down to earth" people so he comes along with jokes, so the pill is easier to swallow.

[@bobbulgi880]

He's egotistical

[@IIEthanGamingII]

Your point?

[@IIEthanGamingII]

so is nearly every human being

[@bobbulgi880]

He was in it for the money

[@juliodigregorio7703]

Hahahahahhaa

[@darkheartlightsoul]

he's addressing the ego. we all have them. stop hating

[@dylanalan2890]

What is wrong with this man. Sounds like he is confused and in trouble. What a time wasting.

[@bgockel]

He wants you to assume he is insane. Listen with your heart, not to the words.

[@IIEthanGamingII]

Lmao what are you confused about specifically?

[@michaelgarofono9535]

You're time must be precious 🤣

[@michaelgarofono9535]

You're comment I love the most. It validates the entire lecture. You are so beautiful . Thank you

[@tannersmith0530]

@@michaelgarofono9535 yes.